Infrastructure

howto://shape traffic on tmg 2010

2011-05-23

TMG 2010 does a great job of securing your network, and can exercise very precise control of internal users’ access to the Internet when it comes to ports and protocols, file access, etc., but unfortunately it cannot do anything to control bandwidth consumption. Whether you call it traffic shaping, bandwidth restrictions, rate limiting, or speed [...]

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howto://add the telnet client to windows

2011-05-18

Seeking the telnet client in recent versions of Windows? Look no further, here is how we do it.

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and you cannot handle (back) pressure

2011-05-15

You might think you have enough resources available, but Exchange 2010 may have other ideas.

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howto://map a drive to sharepoint

2011-05-10

If you have ever needed to move a lot of files up to a document library on a SharePoint server, or diff a library to a network directory to make sure everything was transferred, or post things to SharePoint using a script, then you probably wanted to map the SharePoint site as a drive. Having [...]

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Apparently I’m twelve years old

2011-05-03

Here’s how you can change the display for most HP printers. And hilarity ensued.

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Message in an email…fail

2011-04-15

Got a client who suddenly cannot play voicemails from a Unified Communications system? Here’s the fix.

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howto://change the NAT address on TMG 2010

2011-04-12

Need to change the external address your users’ traffic is NAT’d to on TMG 2010? Here’s the how to.

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howto://use Windows 2008 on your laptop

2011-03-30

If you have tried to install Windows 2008 on your laptop and run into a brick wall getting wireless working, here’s a quick tip. YMMV but this has worked for me on a couple of different Dell’s and an Acer, even when using 2008R2 (which is of course 64bit only) so it’s good enough to [...]

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Ask and ye shall receive

2011-03-28

When I first wrote my open letter to Steve Jobs, it was with very little expectation that anything would come of it. Sure, it got some attention in the blogosphere, and a decent amount of traffic, but it’s not like Steve emailed me back. However, something better happened.

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howto://print to file without specifying a path each time

2011-03-21

In troubleshooting some printing problems, I found myself needing to set up a printer that was a print to file. We wanted to see the PCL settings to figure out why a job would occasionally try to go to the manual feed tray, but that is another story for another post. To set up a [...]

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IPv6 may make IP Blacklists unusable

2011-03-18

With the approach of World IPv6 day, I started thinking about things that moving to IPv6 will affect, and IP Blacklists are definitely one of them. In my post over at AllSpammedUp.com, I discuss this and propose a few alternatives to consider. If this seems relevant to your interests, I bet you know what to [...]

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Just Add Dropbox: Share Folder Etiquette

2011-03-16

Dropbox is an incredible utility and the longer I use it the more I find it indispensible.  We’ve discussed using Dropbox with OneNote to keep all your writing centralized.  We’ve also gone over making Windows Live Writer more portable thru Junction folders and Dropbox.  One feature that’s been seriously useful is the shared folder capability.  [...]

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